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Music ALIVE 2010 – Next Sunday

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Like previous years, Media Satellite proudly presents Music ALIVE ’10 an afternoon around Computer Music products, Audio and Visual Performance. Gearjunkies has partnered up with Media Satellite to bring you detailed coverage of this event. Starting this week with details on new products/updates, exclusive artist performance announcements at the event, and next Sunday live news coverage from the event itself. If you don’t want to miss anything? Be sure to follow the Gearjunkies twitterfeed. Click on that ‘follow‘ button!

Synths and workstations

Jomox MBrane – NAMM 2010 – Video

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Juergen Michaelis demoing his new Jomox MBrane II modeling synth at the BCM NAMM booth. The MBrane II is a small analog synth optimized for percussive snare drum and cowbell-like sounds with a wide range of sound characteristics.

Juergen’s new design makes it possible to produce very authentic membrane-like sounds from 2 analog T-Bridge oscillators by means of coupling and dampening. A versatile noise generator with white noise, metal noise and envelope control allows you to created snare drums, rim shots, cow bells and bongos.

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Korg SV-1 at the NAMM – Video

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Join in as Frank McComb gives the Korg SV-1 Stage Vintage a workout. His electric piano and clav chops really shine in this performance. Live from the Korg USA Performance Stage at Winter NAMM 2010. The SV-1 contains the hippest, most in-demand and soul-satisfying keyboard sounds ever collected in a single instrument. Decades of electro-mechanical, transistorized, tape-driven, analog, and digital legends are joined by a collection of rich acoustic pianos, all reproduced with stunning realism. But the SV-1 is about much more than excellent sound; the SV-1 re-creates the look, the feel, and visceral pleasure of performing on a vintage instrument.

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Dave Smith introduces Mopho with keys

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Dave Smith has introduced the Keyboard Version of his monophonic analog synthesizer Mopho. Basically it is a Mopho with knobs and switches and a weighted keyboard with velocity and aftertouch. According to Dave himself the Mopho Keys will be shipping in about two months with a price tag of 800 US dollars. Owners of the Tetr4 synth can connect the Mopho Keys up to it and create a 5-voice synth with the Mopho as the controller.

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Teenage Engineering OP-1 Overview

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The OP-1 from Teenage Engineering is a project we are waiting on for quite some time now. It is still under development but from the several previews we can expect a cool little synth alright. We understand that Teeneage Engineering is planning to start the beta testing pretty soon. At the NAMM David from Teenage Engineering gives an overview of their yet to be released OP-1.

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Cakewalk Announces New Mobile Studio Canvas

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Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces the new Mobile Studio Canvas.

The Mobile Studio Canvas for Mac, PC, and standalone performance is the first such product in the Cakewalk hardware family. Capable of producing over 1,000 sounds, the Mobile Studio Canvas includes the Roland SD-50 Sound Module, redesigned GM (General MIDI) 2 and Roland’s Solo Tones sounds. The unit’s USB memory drive can playback MP3, WAV, AIFF, and MIDI files without a computer. It is also a 2-in/2-out audio interface as well as a 1×1 MIDI interface, and ships with SONAR 8.5 LE recording software for use with a computer (for Windows only).